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Meaning of de trop | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
dəˈtɹoʊ

Definitions

excessive or superfluous

Equivalents

Français de trop

Examples

“I think that wellingtons are a little de trop for a light shower.”
“"I should only be de trop," said the Captain, looking at them rather wistfully. "I'd best go and talk to the hermit,"—and so he strolled off out of the hum of men, and noise, and clatter of the banquet, into the dark walk, at the end of which lived that well-known pasteboard Solitary.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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